– AK Presshas an excerpt from AK Thompson’s new Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent.

- Music critic Alex Ross’s new collection of essays Listen to This is out, and on his blog, he put up accompanying audio clips. Useful for those of us who don’t know the works of Schubert or Monteverdi by memory. Bookforum has a review.

– This is the best/funniest one-minute critique of consumerist feminism I’ve ever seen